Patrick Clahane

Oct 28, 2024 | yahoo.com | Andrew Harding |Khue Luu |Patrick Clahane

The Vietnamese people smuggler emerged, briefly and hesitantly, from the shadows of a scraggly forest close to the northern French coastline. “Move away from the others. Come this way, fast,” he said, gesturing across a disused railway line to a member of our team, who had spent weeks posing undercover as a potential customer. Moments later, the smuggler - a tall figure with bright dyed blonde hair - turned away sharply, like a startled fox, and vanished down a narrow path into the woods.

Oct 28, 2024 | yahoo.com | Andrew Harding |Khue Luu |Patrick Clahane

A prolific Vietnamese people smuggler, who entered the UK illegally this year in a small boat, has told the BBC he forges visa documents for other Vietnamese who plan to make the same crossing. The man, whom we are calling Thanh, is now claiming UK asylum and told us he has spent almost 20 years - his entire adult life - in the smuggling industry.

Oct 15, 2024 | msn.com | Esme Stallard |Matt McGrath |Patrick Clahane |Paul Lynch

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Oct 15, 2024 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Esme Stallard |Matt McGrath |Patrick Clahane |Paul Lynch

Flies, rats and offers of hush money - the price of living next to a ‘monster’ incineratorGeorge and Mandy are among the residents who refused to sign an NDA agreement and can speak about the Runcorn incinerator [BBC / Jon Parker Lee]“We have been inundated with flies, rats, smell, noise. It's just been horrendous,” says Mandy Royle, who lives in the closest home to the UK’s biggest waste incinerator at Runcorn in Cheshire.

Oct 14, 2024 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Esme Stallard |Matt McGrath |Patrick Clahane |Paul Lynch

Burning household rubbish in giant incinerators to make electricity is now the dirtiest way the UK generates power, BBC analysis has found. Nearly half of the rubbish produced in UK homes, including increasing amounts of plastic, is now being incinerated. Scientists warn it is a “disaster for the climate” - and some are calling for a ban on new incinerators.